I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.~Diane Cilento

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It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.~Diane Cilento

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I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.~Diane Cilento

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If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.~Diane Cilento

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I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.~Diane Cilento

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I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.~Diane Cilento

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Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.~Diane Cilento

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I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.~Diane Cilento

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The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.~Diane Cilento